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Mack Bolan the Executioner #104
Devil's Horn
Mack Bolan takes on a powerful drug syndicate in Thailand run by a deadly ex-CIA agent
- GenresFiction
251 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 1987
About the author
Don Pendleton
1,537 books196 followersDon Pendleton was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, December 12, 1927 and died October 23, 1995 in Arizona.
He wrote mystery, action/adventure, science-fiction, crime fiction, suspense, short stories, nonfiction, and was a comic scriptwriter, poet, screenwriter, essayist, and metaphysical scholar. He published more than 125 books in his long career, and his books have been published in more than 25 foreign languages with close to two hundred million copies in print throughout the world.
After producing a number of science-fiction and mystery novels, Don launched in 1969 the phenomenal Mack Bolan: The Executioner, which quickly emerged as the original, definitive Action/Adventure series. His successful paperback books inspired a new particularly American literary genre during the early 1970's, and Don became known as "the father of action/adventure."
"Although The Executioner Series is far and away my most significant contribution to world literature, I still do not perceive myself as 'belonging' to any particular literary niche. I am simply a storyteller, an entertainer who hopes to enthrall with visions of the reader's own incipient greatness."
Don Pendleton's original Executioner Series are now in ebooks, published by Open Road Media. 37 of the original novels.
Wikipedia: Don Pendleton
He wrote mystery, action/adventure, science-fiction, crime fiction, suspense, short stories, nonfiction, and was a comic scriptwriter, poet, screenwriter, essayist, and metaphysical scholar. He published more than 125 books in his long career, and his books have been published in more than 25 foreign languages with close to two hundred million copies in print throughout the world.
After producing a number of science-fiction and mystery novels, Don launched in 1969 the phenomenal Mack Bolan: The Executioner, which quickly emerged as the original, definitive Action/Adventure series. His successful paperback books inspired a new particularly American literary genre during the early 1970's, and Don became known as "the father of action/adventure."
"Although The Executioner Series is far and away my most significant contribution to world literature, I still do not perceive myself as 'belonging' to any particular literary niche. I am simply a storyteller, an entertainer who hopes to enthrall with visions of the reader's own incipient greatness."
Don Pendleton's original Executioner Series are now in ebooks, published by Open Road Media. 37 of the original novels.
Wikipedia: Don Pendleton
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April 8, 2024
Mack seemed to act out of character for the first half of the book. Not planning out a hit, taking a hostage around the world with him and other small things made me feel like the author didn’t really understand his character or wasn’t fully up to speed before he wrote this book. However, the second half which found Bolan held hostage by a heroin drug lord made for interesting reading up through the climactic revenge and carnage expected from the Executioner.
June 15, 2026
Easily the best Executioner novel in a very long time.
Devil’s Horn sees Mack Bolan on a one man quest to rid New York of drugs. This eventually leads him to Thailand where he and a returning Jack Grimaldi are thrown into a battle of life and death against a cabal of white color criminals, intent on using POWs and a campaign of never ending terror to make themselves rich on poppies and the eventual formation of heroin.
Unlike author Mike Newton who never seems to know when to shut up and just write, Dan Schmidt, this book’s writer, knows exactly how to craft a story that lives up to its series name. This is by far the most nihilistic, brutal, and violent Executioner novel since Baltimore Takedown, packed with explosions, gun shots, gore, and death everywhere and Bolan is responsible for quite a bit of it.
Devil’s Horn sees Mack Bolan on a one man quest to rid New York of drugs. This eventually leads him to Thailand where he and a returning Jack Grimaldi are thrown into a battle of life and death against a cabal of white color criminals, intent on using POWs and a campaign of never ending terror to make themselves rich on poppies and the eventual formation of heroin.
Unlike author Mike Newton who never seems to know when to shut up and just write, Dan Schmidt, this book’s writer, knows exactly how to craft a story that lives up to its series name. This is by far the most nihilistic, brutal, and violent Executioner novel since Baltimore Takedown, packed with explosions, gun shots, gore, and death everywhere and Bolan is responsible for quite a bit of it.
August 17, 2016
One memorable thing about this book was the fact that I came home from school one day only to find that my beloved English Cocker Spaniel, Buster, had eaten the cover and first chapter.
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